Friday, April 25, 2008

Indiana

I find this primer on Indiana to be pretty fascinating. It asserts that the state's Republicanness means that there is no Democratic machine that Clinton can coopt (viz. Rendell's in PA) and that Obama is really, really good at building organizations in red states (just check out his wins in the interior west and Rocky Mountain states). Cause for hope. There's some of the rust belt dynamic in play in Indiana (in Gary, for example) but from what I understand it's muted there. And the polling so far seems moderately favorable. Clinton does not seemed to have gotten a polling boost out of Pennsylvania, either in Indiana or nationally. Too bad for her.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.